Marker.



U. D. KENWORTHY.

MARKER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 26, 1912. 1,088,591 Patented Feb. 24, 1914.

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MARKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 26, 1912.

Patented Feb. 2st, 1914..

Serial No. 733,662.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ULYssns D. KEN- WORTHY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Zim, in the county of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, have invented new and useful Improvements in Markers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a marker designed for use in connection with railroad tracks to indicate a line in parallelism to the track and spaced therefrom at any desired distance to serve as a guide for the usual dressing or cutting of the grass and weeds.

The main object of the present invention is the provision of a marker adapted for cooperation with a railway track and to be drawn along the same by hand, the construction including an adjustable marking element whereby a line may be drawn on the ground at any desired distance from and in parallel relation with the track.

The invention in its preferred form of details will be described in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved marker with parts in section, showing it applied; and Fig. is an edge view of the marker with parts shown in section.

Referring particularly to the accompanying drawings, the improved marker comprises a substantially V-shaped section 2 connected at the ends remote from its apex by a brace bar 8. The terminals of the side bars of the section 2 which extend beyond the brace bar are bent and formed to provide hooks l of a size and shape to slidably engage the ball of a railroad rail, as 5. Secured to the brace bar 3 at a central point of the latter and extending through a loop 6 arranged at the apex of the V-shaped section is a hollow guide bar 7 in which is slidably mounted an adjustable section 8, the set screw 9 serving to secure the section 8 in longitudinal adjusted relation to the guide bar 7. The free end of the section 8 is bent laterally to provide a pointer bar 10, which pointer bar is of hollow construction,

as at 11, and slidably receives a marking element 12, having a size to permit its projection beyond the free end of the pointer bar, clamps or set screws 13 securing the marking element in adjusted relation in such pointer bar. Secured to one of the side bars of the frame section 2 are bracket plates 14, between which is pivotally mounted a handle member 15.

In the use of the device, the hooks lare engaged with one rail of a railroad track, the marking element, held through the adjustments described is arranged so that the operative end thereof is at the desired distance from the particular rail, and the marker as an. entirety is drawn lengthwise the rail through the medium of a handle 15, the desired marking thus obtained affording a line between which and the rail the usual dressing or cutting of the grass and weeds is carried out.

The device may be readily applied to the track when desired for use or removed therefrom in a simple, expeditious manner by a single operator when necessary, as to avoid a passing train, and in use will, through the efforts of a single workman, provide a line of guidance as rapidly as the device can be moved lengthwise the track.

The device is also useful in lining out ditches or similar railroad improvements as by the adjustment of the marking element the same device can be used to mark an inner and outer line of out.

What is claimed is:

1. A marker for railroad use including a V-shaped section, a hollow bar fixed therein, a section telescopically mounted in the hollow bar, said section having a downwardly projecting hollow terminal, a marking element telescopically mounted in the hollow terminal, and hooks carried by the \I-shaped section to engage a railroad track.

2. A marker for railroad tracks including a V-SllttPGCl section having hooks to slidaloly engage a railroad rail, a hollow guide bar secured in the section and projecting through and beyond the apex thereof, an

adjustable section telescopically mounted latter in adjusted position in said hollow in the guide bar and having a downwardly terminal.

projecting hollow terminal, set screws pass- In testimony whereof I affix my signature ing through the guide bar to secure the adin presence of two witnesses.

just-able section, a marking element tele- ULYS'SES D. KENWORTHY. scopically mounted in the hollow terminal, Vitnesses:

and set screws carried by said terminal to NAT N. NASLUND,

engage the marking element and secure the ANNIE NASLUND.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). C. 

